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Re: [xmlvm-users] XMLVM java convertion to iPhone query

[Wolfgang K. <wol...@xm...>]

Candice,

thanks for your interest in XMLVM. Currently we focus on cross-compiling
Android to  iPhone. J2ME is not a platform we currently support and we
do not have any plans to do so. There have been some discussions on the
mailing list about J2ME support.

And one final note - please use the mailing list to post questions. This
ensures that the community can benefit from our answers or even can help
you as well.

Kind regards
    Wolfgang



Candice Schouten wrote:
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> To whom it may concern
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> I would like to enquire whether XMLVM supports J2ME.
>
> We have developed a midlet application using J2ME and I would like to
> convert the application for use on the iPhone.
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> Do you know if this is at all possible with your current version of XMLVM?
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Re: [xmlvm-users] Howdy

[Michael M. <mo...@gm...>]

Not yet. Have been working on it to teach myself Cocoa. Was trying to  
figure out how I wanted to deal with different resolutions and pixel  
independent element placement.

Creating tools/languages to make certain niche programs easy to make  
was always a hobby of mine. Have considered them for iPhone but partly  
avoided because of the scripting rule. A bit unsure how much user- 
defined content/control is allowed before it counts as scripting.

Thanks,
Michael McGlothlin

On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Sascha Haeberling <sa...@xm...> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> your storybook idea sounds interesting. And it seems like an  
> interesting candidate for XMLVM, as I guess the Anfroid APIs  you  
> would use are not too many.
>
> Do you already have the iPhone version on the AppStore? I would love  
> to take a look at it!
>
> // Sascha
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Michael <mo...@gm...> wrote:
> My first goal is to rewrite my storybook creator lib I've been working
> on from Obj-C to Android and then make sure the books work on Android
> and iPhone. It basically takes an XML file that let's you define an
> interactive childrens book without actually coding anything other than
> a few rules like defining animations and what events start/stop them
> and layer them into pages of a book-like app. Not really a game
> programming language but could be an easy way to make apps of this
> type.
>
> Flash and PHP I think would be good because they are sort of the Basic
> or Logo people learn first these days and are basically easy to learn
> and use.
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Re: [xmlvm-users] Howdy

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

Hi Michael,

your storybook idea sounds interesting. And it seems like an interesting
candidate for XMLVM, as I guess the Anfroid APIs  you would use are not too
many.

Do you already have the iPhone version on the AppStore? I would love to take
a look at it!

// Sascha

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Michael <mo...@gm...> wrote:

> My first goal is to rewrite my storybook creator lib I've been working
> on from Obj-C to Android and then make sure the books work on Android
> and iPhone. It basically takes an XML file that let's you define an
> interactive childrens book without actually coding anything other than
> a few rules like defining animations and what events start/stop them
> and layer them into pages of a book-like app. Not really a game
> programming language but could be an easy way to make apps of this
> type.
>
> Flash and PHP I think would be good because they are sort of the Basic
> or Logo people learn first these days and are basically easy to learn
> and use.
>
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Re: [xmlvm-users] Howdy

[Michael <mo...@gm...>]

My first goal is to rewrite my storybook creator lib I've been working
on from Obj-C to Android and then make sure the books work on Android
and iPhone. It basically takes an XML file that let's you define an
interactive childrens book without actually coding anything other than
a few rules like defining animations and what events start/stop them
and layer them into pages of a book-like app. Not really a game
programming language but could be an easy way to make apps of this
type.

Flash and PHP I think would be good because they are sort of the Basic
or Logo people learn first these days and are basically easy to learn
and use.

Re: [xmlvm-users] Howdy

[Sascha H. <sa...@gm...>]

Hi Michael!

Welcome to the list! :) See comments inline:

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Michael McGlothlin <mo...@gm...>wrote:

> New to XMLVM and the list. It sounds like an interesting project. I've
> been teaching myself Android and iPhone programming for about a year
> in my spare time.
>
> Have you considered making Flash transcode to XMLVM? I don't do much
> with it but that'd open doors to Android and iPhone for many
> developers I think.
>

Flash is not on our list of things to support. And as Flash is coming to
Android soon, I don't think this is something worth considering. It would be
a huge amount of work that would probably take many years to support
something like Flash for us.


>
> I was also thinking this somewhat applies to the new HipHop PHP to C++
> translator. Maybe seeing what they did could help improve the C++
> support and add PHP as an input language.
>

I don't see how PHP would be an interesting input language for creating
standalone mobile apps. PHP is a server-side technology. If you develop a
web-app nowadays  you can create JS-based apps that make use of
offline-storage (HTML5/Gears) that will run on your phone, even if it is not
online. PHP doesn't have the necessary APIs to be used for dynamic
client-side code, I think. But I might be wrong. But in any way, we are not
planning to support PHP in XMLVM ourselves.


>
> Any custom languages created for this yet? Seems ideal for a game
> oriented language like Zillions or Game Creator.
>

I don't know these two in detail but have heard of them. In general I would
say, that such APIs/languages are an interesting target, but I would need to
see them in detail to determine whether they are a good fit with
Android/iPhone.

One thing to keep in mind with all of the things you mentioned above: There
are always two things you need to do in order to allow cross-compilation of
apps: First thing is the cross-compilation of the actual logic/instructions.
Depending on the language, that is usually not so hard.
Example: We just changed XMLVM to use the DEX bytecode and re-wrote our ObjC
and JS output mapping to use that new language and it was basically done in
three months by two people, who didn't work on it full-time.

However, there is a second step that is essential for a cross-compilation to
succeed: You need to have the API available in your target-platform. So,
e.g. if you want to support Flash, you need to have the whole Flash API
available on the target platform, same for PHP and same for every other
language. And that's really the hard part that will take an extraordinary
amount of time!

The reason we are currently focusing on Android, is because the API is
perfect for cross-compiling it to the iPhone, because the devices and APIs
are similar. We cannot spread ourselves to thin and try supporting every
language out there.

And one final note: The core XMLVM team is not big, so our resources are
limited. So if you would like to have support for language X and target Y in
XMLVM, we would be happy to have you as a contributor for this. :)

Right now, the focus of the XMLVM developers is on the Android-to-iPhone and
Android-to-WebOS pipelines.

// Sascha


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[xmlvm-users] Howdy

[Michael M. <mo...@gm...>]

New to XMLVM and the list. It sounds like an interesting project. I've  
been teaching myself Android and iPhone programming for about a year  
in my spare time.

Have you considered making Flash transcode to XMLVM? I don't do much  
with it but that'd open doors to Android and iPhone for many  
developers I think.

I was also thinking this somewhat applies to the new HipHop PHP to C++  
translator. Maybe seeing what they did could help improve the C++  
support and add PHP as an input language.

Any custom languages created for this yet? Seems ideal for a game  
oriented language like Zillions or Game Creator.

Thanks,
Michael McGlothlin

[xmlvm-users] Running CLang static analyzer on code generated by XMLVM

[Gergely K. <ger...@ma...>]

Hi,

Did anyone have success with the Clang Static Analyzer?

It seems that it does not like the way we use @class to resolve circular
includes.

In particular it does not seem to like when we do this:

@class java_lang_String

and then later:

typedef NSString java_lang_String

Best Regards,
Gergely

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Re: [xmlvm-users] Android Programs Produce Runtime Error

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

The error seems to indicate that AndroidManifest.xml could not be found. 
Make sure it is in the classpath because we use getResourceAsStream() to 
load it.

Arno


On 2/7/10 2:45 PM, Steve Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a new XMLVM user. I have successfully installed SVN and Eclipse. I
> was able to compile and run many project apps (iFireworks, iHelloWorld,
> IRemote, etc.).
>
> However, if I attempt to run any Android project apps, I immediately get
> the following error:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.xmlvm.iphone.NSXMLParser.parse(NSXMLParser.java:77)
> at android.internal.AndroidManifest.<init>(AndroidManifest.java:112)
> at
> android.internal.ActivityManager.bootstrapMainActivity(ActivityManager.java:118)
> at android.internal.AndroidAppLauncher.main(AndroidAppLauncher.java:30)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated :D
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[xmlvm-users] Android Programs Produce Runtime Error

[Steve J. <cap...@gm...>]

Hello,
I am a new XMLVM user. I have successfully installed SVN and Eclipse. I was
able to compile and run many project apps (iFireworks, iHelloWorld, IRemote,
etc.).

However, if I attempt to run any Android project apps, I immediately get the
following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.xmlvm.iphone.NSXMLParser.parse(NSXMLParser.java:77)
at android.internal.AndroidManifest.<init>(AndroidManifest.java:112)
at
android.internal.ActivityManager.bootstrapMainActivity(ActivityManager.java:118)
at android.internal.AndroidAppLauncher.main(AndroidAppLauncher.java:30)

Any help would be greatly appreciated :D

Re: [xmlvm-users] Use XMLVM In Commercial Product

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

Hi Lennie,

thank you for your interest in XMLVM. It is absolutely possible to use XMLVM
for a commercial product. For a contribution to the project, we will grant
you a linking exception that will allow you to publish an app that is linked
against XMLVM code, without releasing your source code to the public. This
contribution can e.g. be source code, if you would like to help us out with
improving the project.

// Sascha

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Lennie De Villiers <len...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I'm going to development a commercial product that use XMLVM, can I
> distribute it and make money out of it or does the XMLVM license
> prevent that?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Lennie De Villiers
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[xmlvm-users] Use XMLVM In Commercial Product

[Lennie De V. <len...@gm...>]

Hi,

If I'm going to development a commercial product that use XMLVM, can I
distribute it and make money out of it or does the XMLVM license
prevent that?

Kind Regards,

Lennie De Villiers

[xmlvm-users] SDK compatibility observations

[Dr. A. K. S. <al...@se...>]

I've just finished porting my application - we're starting beta test
right now. On the way, I've checked for SDK compatibility. It seems
that the whole xmlvm framework is compatible with iPhone SDK >=
2.2.1. Below this the AVFramework is missing which may be a lot
of work to replace - I don't know. A few functions need to be commented
out, e.g.  functions for translucency, but these are minor changes.

However for 2.2.1 some internal iPhone math functions seem to be
buggy - a test of the audio analysis kernel gives the expected
result in the emulator, but wrong numbers on the device. So the
version where everything works fine is iPhone OS >= 3.0 .

It is necessary to use the Release build with GCC 4.2 optimization
set to the highest level (= 9) to get about the same execution speed
as on an Android device. With default optimization (= s) it is about
twice as slow on the device. The emulator runs much too fast.

Best,
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Re: [xmlvm-users] xmlvm-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 1

[Dr. A. K. S. <al...@se...>]

Sorry, that was a mistake from my side. Now I know that the java
code gives the interface and the objectiveC directory gives the
actual code to be run on the device. I did adapt the java classes
when additional methods were needed (such as UIAlertView.show() and
dismiss()), but only did the implementation in the objectiveC code -
hope that's ok.

Best,
  Alex


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>    4. Re: iPad SDK Support? (Sascha Haeberling)
>    5. Re: iPad SDK Support? (Arno Puder)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:39:15 -0800
> From: Arno Puder <ar...@pu...>
> Subject: Re: [xmlvm-users] Android textSize, textColor, background
> 	tags (in activity.xml)
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> 
> of course it shouldn't happen if the Java and Objective-C side are out 
> of sync. Can you give an example? I would expect a segfault in that case.
> 
> Arno
> 
> 
> Dr. Alexander K. Seewald wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've just implemented the textColor and textSize tags for Android,
> > and extended the background tag to take simple color names as well
> > as the #FF123456 hex code notation (alpha,r,g,b)... again a
> > scattering of small changes.
> > 
> > The xmlvm/src/xmlvm2objc/compat-lib/ directory has java and objc
> > subdirectories which do not seem to be synchronized. Initially I
> > implemented parts in Java and then found out that this has no effect
> > when compiling for iPhone... so I implemented the objc parts as well.
> > 
> > Is it deliberately done that the code in the java directory is not
> > compiled via xmlvm to objc code? Would it be possible to convert
> > specific java files to save on half the development effort? ;-)
> > 
> > Best,
> >   Alex
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:46:51 +0100
> From: "Dr. Alexander K. Seewald" <al...@se...>
> Subject: [xmlvm-users] localized strings et al.
> To: xml...@li...
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just uploaded another patch set that supports localized
> strings (via getString() and in the activity.xml file) and the
> textSize/Color/Background tags.
> 
> I found that the mapping of java strings is slightly incorrect: the
> strings from...
>         return stringMap.get(new Integer(id)).replaceAll("\\\\n","\\n").replaceAll("\\","");
> 
> get mapped like this:
> \\n -> @"\n"  (i.e. the line feed character 0x0a - a string of
> length 1)
> \\\\n -> @"\\n" (i.e. '\n' - two characters, one backslash followed
> by 'n')
> \\ -> @"\"
> - the last of which gives an error during compilation. The others
>   seem ok.
> 
> Similar to the float and double constants NaN which need to be
> called NAN in objectiveC, this can be solved by postprocessing with
> vi...
> vi Target.m -c ':%s/NaN/NAN/' -c ':%s/@"\\"/@"\\\\"/' -c ':wq'
> 
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> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:47:41 +0200
> From: Lennie De Villiers <len...@gm...>
> Subject: [xmlvm-users] iPad SDK Support?
> To: xml...@li...
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Will XMLVM support the iPad SDK?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Lennie
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> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:01:23 +0100
> From: Sascha Haeberling <sa...@xm...>
> Subject: Re: [xmlvm-users] iPad SDK Support?
> To: Lennie De Villiers <len...@gm...>
> Cc: xml...@li...
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> I was waiting for that question! :D
> 
> Well, I haven't actually looked at the iPad SDK yet. Fact of the matter is,
> that iPhone application will just run. So every app compiled with XMLVM
> should run on an iPad.
> 
> Keep in mind that our primary goal right now is cross-compiling Android
> Apps. So the question is, does the iPad API have any functionality that
> Android already has but the iPhone doesn't. I think it will definitely get
> interesting in terms of skaling, especially when we see Android Netbooks and
> tablets out there, that don't have that small phone screen. Then you might
> think about targeting the iPad specifically. At the moment, with just
> Android phones, I don't think you would target the iPad, except for the
> iPhone compatibility mode.
> 
> But that just my first assumption/analysis.
> 
> // Sascha
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Lennie De Villiers <len...@gm...>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Will XMLVM support the iPad SDK?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Lennie
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> Subject: Re: [xmlvm-users] iPad SDK Support?
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> 
> we'll have to take a closer look at the SDK. I would assume that it is 
> not that much different from the regular iPhone OS API. I think XMLVM is 
> in a good position to target the iPad. We already support Android's 
> layout managers which make is much easier to write apps for different 
> screen resolutions.
> 
> One bigger TODO that comes to mind is our own Java Emulator. That would 
> need to be changed for the iPad.
> 
> Arno
> 
> 
> On 1/28/10 5:47 AM, Lennie De Villiers wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Will XMLVM support the iPad SDK?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Lennie
> >
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:56:41 +0100
> From: Christian Mansch <c.m...@we...>
> Subject: [xmlvm-users] Camera-Methods
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to use the some camera-functions in xmlvm?
> or is it not currently not implemented?
> 
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> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:01:35 -0800
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> Subject: Re: [xmlvm-users] Camera-Methods
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> 
> XMLVM currently does not support the camera API, but it shouldn't be 
> overly hard to implement.
> 
> Arno
> 
> 
> On 1/30/10 5:56 AM, Christian Mansch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is it possible to use the some camera-functions in xmlvm?
> > or is it not currently not implemented?
> >
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:47:28 +0000
> From: len...@gm...
> Subject: [xmlvm-users] IPad Support
> To: xml...@li...
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> 
> Hi, am gonna start on ipad sdk support. 
> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
> 
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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:21:41 -0800
> From: William Woody <wo...@al...>
> Subject: [xmlvm-users] Unicode characters in Java Strings when
> 	compiling to	Objective C.
> To: xml...@li...
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> I'm using XMLVM to cross-compile some math routines to be embedded into an iPhone/iPad application. One of the problems I ran across was that when a unicode character was added as part of a Java string ("\uxxxx"), it was being emitted in the Objective C code as "\xxxxx", with the characters as octal characters.
> 
> The following change causes characters to be output as unicode characters instead:
> 
> Around lines 812-822 of DEXmlvmOutputProcess.java (org.xmlvm.proc.out), replace:
> 
>                 } else if (constant instanceof CstString) {
>                     CstString cstString = (CstString) constant;
>                     String valueOriginal = cstString.getString().getString();
>                     String value = "";
>                     // Convert special characters in string to octal notation
>                     for (int i = 0; i < valueOriginal.length(); i++) {
>                         char ch = valueOriginal.charAt(i);
>                         value += (ch < ' ' || ch > 'z') ? String.format("\\%03o", new Integer(ch))
>                                 : ch;
>                     }
>                     dexInstruction.setAttribute("value", value);
> 
> with
> 
>                 } else if (constant instanceof CstString) {
>                     CstString cstString = (CstString) constant;
>                     String valueOriginal = cstString.getString().getString();
>                     String value = "";
>                     // Convert special characters in string to octal notation
>                     for (int i = 0; i < valueOriginal.length(); i++) {
>                         char ch = valueOriginal.charAt(i);
>                         value += (ch < ' ' || ch > 'z') ? String.format("\\u%04x", new Integer(ch))
> //                                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^ Change here.
>                                 : ch;
>                     }
>                     dexInstruction.setAttribute("value", value);
> 
> 
> 
> Of course this is sub-optimal, given that this only works if targeting Objective C platforms, where "\uxxxx" is an accepted unicode character escape. But I'm putting it out there for what it's worth.
> 
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[xmlvm-users] Unicode characters in Java Strings when compiling to Objective C.

[William W. <wo...@al...>]

I'm using XMLVM to cross-compile some math routines to be embedded into an iPhone/iPad application. One of the problems I ran across was that when a unicode character was added as part of a Java string ("\uxxxx"), it was being emitted in the Objective C code as "\xxxxx", with the characters as octal characters.

The following change causes characters to be output as unicode characters instead:

Around lines 812-822 of DEXmlvmOutputProcess.java (org.xmlvm.proc.out), replace:

                } else if (constant instanceof CstString) {
                    CstString cstString = (CstString) constant;
                    String valueOriginal = cstString.getString().getString();
                    String value = "";
                    // Convert special characters in string to octal notation
                    for (int i = 0; i < valueOriginal.length(); i++) {
                        char ch = valueOriginal.charAt(i);
                        value += (ch < ' ' || ch > 'z') ? String.format("\\%03o", new Integer(ch))
                                : ch;
                    }
                    dexInstruction.setAttribute("value", value);

with

                } else if (constant instanceof CstString) {
                    CstString cstString = (CstString) constant;
                    String valueOriginal = cstString.getString().getString();
                    String value = "";
                    // Convert special characters in string to octal notation
                    for (int i = 0; i < valueOriginal.length(); i++) {
                        char ch = valueOriginal.charAt(i);
                        value += (ch < ' ' || ch > 'z') ? String.format("\\u%04x", new Integer(ch))
//                                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^ Change here.
                                : ch;
                    }
                    dexInstruction.setAttribute("value", value);



Of course this is sub-optimal, given that this only works if targeting Objective C platforms, where "\uxxxx" is an accepted unicode character escape. But I'm putting it out there for what it's worth.

- Bill Woody

[xmlvm-users] IPad Support

[<len...@gm...>]

Hi, am gonna start on ipad sdk support. 
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Re: [xmlvm-users] Camera-Methods

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

XMLVM currently does not support the camera API, but it shouldn't be 
overly hard to implement.

Arno


On 1/30/10 5:56 AM, Christian Mansch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to use the some camera-functions in xmlvm?
> or is it not currently not implemented?
>
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[xmlvm-users] Camera-Methods

[Christian M. <c.m...@we...>]

Hello,

is it possible to use the some camera-functions in xmlvm?
or is it not currently not implemented?

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Re: [xmlvm-users] iPad SDK Support?

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

we'll have to take a closer look at the SDK. I would assume that it is 
not that much different from the regular iPhone OS API. I think XMLVM is 
in a good position to target the iPad. We already support Android's 
layout managers which make is much easier to write apps for different 
screen resolutions.

One bigger TODO that comes to mind is our own Java Emulator. That would 
need to be changed for the iPad.

Arno


On 1/28/10 5:47 AM, Lennie De Villiers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Will XMLVM support the iPad SDK?
>
> cheers
>
> Lennie
>

Re: [xmlvm-users] iPad SDK Support?

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

I was waiting for that question! :D

Well, I haven't actually looked at the iPad SDK yet. Fact of the matter is,
that iPhone application will just run. So every app compiled with XMLVM
should run on an iPad.

Keep in mind that our primary goal right now is cross-compiling Android
Apps. So the question is, does the iPad API have any functionality that
Android already has but the iPhone doesn't. I think it will definitely get
interesting in terms of skaling, especially when we see Android Netbooks and
tablets out there, that don't have that small phone screen. Then you might
think about targeting the iPad specifically. At the moment, with just
Android phones, I don't think you would target the iPad, except for the
iPhone compatibility mode.

But that just my first assumption/analysis.

// Sascha

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Lennie De Villiers <len...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Will XMLVM support the iPad SDK?
>
> cheers
>
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[xmlvm-users] iPad SDK Support?

[Lennie De V. <len...@gm...>]

Hi,

Will XMLVM support the iPad SDK?

cheers

Lennie

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[xmlvm-users] localized strings et al.

[Dr. A. K. S. <al...@se...>]

Hi,

I've just uploaded another patch set that supports localized
strings (via getString() and in the activity.xml file) and the
textSize/Color/Background tags.

I found that the mapping of java strings is slightly incorrect: the
strings from...
        return stringMap.get(new Integer(id)).replaceAll("\\\\n","\\n").replaceAll("\\","");

get mapped like this:
\\n -> @"\n"  (i.e. the line feed character 0x0a - a string of
length 1)
\\\\n -> @"\\n" (i.e. '\n' - two characters, one backslash followed
by 'n')
\\ -> @"\"
- the last of which gives an error during compilation. The others
  seem ok.

Similar to the float and double constants NaN which need to be
called NAN in objectiveC, this can be solved by postprocessing with
vi...
vi Target.m -c ':%s/NaN/NAN/' -c ':%s/@"\\"/@"\\\\"/' -c ':wq'

Best,
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Re: [xmlvm-users] Android textSize, textColor, background tags (in activity.xml)

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

of course it shouldn't happen if the Java and Objective-C side are out 
of sync. Can you give an example? I would expect a segfault in that case.

Arno


Dr. Alexander K. Seewald wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just implemented the textColor and textSize tags for Android,
> and extended the background tag to take simple color names as well
> as the #FF123456 hex code notation (alpha,r,g,b)... again a
> scattering of small changes.
> 
> The xmlvm/src/xmlvm2objc/compat-lib/ directory has java and objc
> subdirectories which do not seem to be synchronized. Initially I
> implemented parts in Java and then found out that this has no effect
> when compiling for iPhone... so I implemented the objc parts as well.
> 
> Is it deliberately done that the code in the java directory is not
> compiled via xmlvm to objc code? Would it be possible to convert
> specific java files to save on half the development effort? ;-)
> 
> Best,
>   Alex

Re: [xmlvm-users] XMPP support

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

Socket-network communication is not supported at this point, however, I know
that some HTTP-level communication works. Arno is much better to answer
these questions, as he takes care of most of the Objective-C code.

You can check what is supported here:
http://xmlvm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmlvm/trunk/xmlvm/src/android2iphone/android/
http://xmlvm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmlvm/trunk/xmlvm/src/xmlvm2objc/compat-lib/

// Sascha

2010/1/20 Pavel Aksonov <ak...@gm...>

> Thank you for the information, where i can find list what is supported and
> what is not?
> Is socket-network communication supported?
>
> Maybe i could help here, but i'm not familiar with Objective-C...
>
>
> 20.01.2010, в 17:11, Sascha Haeberling написал(а):
>
> Hi Pavel,
>
> we don't have an Android SDK version we fully support, and I don't think we
> are anywhere close to that at this point.
>
> From the logs your provided I can see, that there are compatibility classes
> missing, for example for android.text.Editable and others, that first need
> to be implemented.
>
> // Sascha
>
> 2010/1/20 Pavel Aksonov <ak...@gm...>
>
>> I've tried to convert to iPhone next android app (XMPP sample) but
>> unsuccessfully.
>>
>> http://davanum.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/updated-xmpp-client-for-android/
>>
>> Could someone help? What android SDK version is supported? What could be
>> done to fix it?
>>
>>
>> I've extract smack classes from smack.jar but still errors, there is tail
>> of long log
>>
>> gcc-4.2 -x objective-c -arch i386 -fmessage-length=0 -pipe -std=c99
>> -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks -O0 -Wreturn-type
>> -D__IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=30000 -isysroot
>> /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.1.sdk
>> -fvisibility=hidden -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -gdwarf-2 -Isrc/lib/iphone
>> -Isrc/lib/android -Isrc/app  -c
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m -o
>> build/obj/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.o
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:9:34: error:
>> android_text_Editable.h: No such file or directory
>> In file included from src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:10:
>> src/app/org_jivesoftware_smack_ConnectionConfiguration.h:3:32: error:
>> java_lang_Cloneable.h: No such file or directory
>> In file included from src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:10:
>> src/app/org_jivesoftware_smack_ConnectionConfiguration.h:23: error: cannot
>> find protocol declaration for ‘java_lang_Cloneable’
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m: In function
>> ‘-[org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog
>> __init_org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog___org_apache_android_xmpp_XMPPClient:]’:
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning:
>> ‘android_app_Dialog’ may not respond to
>> ‘-__init_android_app_Dialog___android_content_Context:’
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning: (Messages
>> without a matching method signature
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning: will be
>> assumed to return ‘id’ and accept
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning: ‘...’ as
>> arguments.)
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m: In function
>> ‘-[org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog onStart__]’:
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:79: warning:
>> ‘android_app_Dialog’ may not respond to ‘-onStart__’
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:81: warning:
>> ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to
>> ‘-setContentView___int:’
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:82: warning:
>> ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to ‘-getWindow__’
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:86: warning:
>> ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to
>> ‘-setTitle___java_lang_CharSequence:’
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:88: warning:
>> ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to
>> ‘-findViewById___int:’
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m: In function
>> ‘-[org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog getText___int:]’:
>> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:243: warning:
>> ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to
>> ‘-findViewById___int:’
>> make: *** [build/obj/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.o] Error 1
>>
>>
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[xmlvm-users] Android textSize, textColor, background tags (in activity.xml)

[Dr. A. K. S. <al...@se...>]

Hi all,

I've just implemented the textColor and textSize tags for Android,
and extended the background tag to take simple color names as well
as the #FF123456 hex code notation (alpha,r,g,b)... again a
scattering of small changes.

The xmlvm/src/xmlvm2objc/compat-lib/ directory has java and objc
subdirectories which do not seem to be synchronized. Initially I
implemented parts in Java and then found out that this has no effect
when compiling for iPhone... so I implemented the objc parts as well.

Is it deliberately done that the code in the java directory is not
compiled via xmlvm to objc code? Would it be possible to convert
specific java files to save on half the development effort? ;-)

Best,
  Alex
-- 
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www.seewald.at
Tel. +43(664)1106886
Fax. +43(1)2533033/2764

Re: [xmlvm-users] XMPP support

[Pavel A. <ak...@gm...>]

Thank you for the information, where i can find list what is supported and what is not?
Is socket-network communication supported?

Maybe i could help here, but i'm not familiar with Objective-C...


20.01.2010, в 17:11, Sascha Haeberling написал(а):

> Hi Pavel,
> 
> we don't have an Android SDK version we fully support, and I don't think we are anywhere close to that at this point.
> 
> From the logs your provided I can see, that there are compatibility classes missing, for example for android.text.Editable and others, that first need to be implemented.
> 
> // Sascha
> 
> 2010/1/20 Pavel Aksonov <ak...@gm...>
> I've tried to convert to iPhone next android app (XMPP sample) but unsuccessfully.
> 
> http://davanum.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/updated-xmpp-client-for-android/
> 
> Could someone help? What android SDK version is supported? What could be done to fix it?
> 
> 
> I've extract smack classes from smack.jar but still errors, there is tail of long log
> 
> gcc-4.2 -x objective-c -arch i386 -fmessage-length=0 -pipe -std=c99 -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks -O0 -Wreturn-type -D__IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=30000 -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.1.sdk -fvisibility=hidden -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -gdwarf-2 -Isrc/lib/iphone -Isrc/lib/android -Isrc/app  -c src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m -o build/obj/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.o
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:9:34: error: android_text_Editable.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:10:
> src/app/org_jivesoftware_smack_ConnectionConfiguration.h:3:32: error: java_lang_Cloneable.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:10:
> src/app/org_jivesoftware_smack_ConnectionConfiguration.h:23: error: cannot find protocol declaration for ‘java_lang_Cloneable’
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m: In function ‘-[org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog __init_org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog___org_apache_android_xmpp_XMPPClient:]’:
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning: ‘android_app_Dialog’ may not respond to ‘-__init_android_app_Dialog___android_content_Context:’
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning: (Messages without a matching method signature
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning: will be assumed to return ‘id’ and accept
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:59: warning: ‘...’ as arguments.)
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m: In function ‘-[org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog onStart__]’:
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:79: warning: ‘android_app_Dialog’ may not respond to ‘-onStart__’
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:81: warning: ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to ‘-setContentView___int:’
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:82: warning: ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to ‘-getWindow__’
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:86: warning: ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to ‘-setTitle___java_lang_CharSequence:’
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:88: warning: ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to ‘-findViewById___int:’
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m: In function ‘-[org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog getText___int:]’:
> src/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.m:243: warning: ‘org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog’ may not respond to ‘-findViewById___int:’
> make: *** [build/obj/app/org_apache_android_xmpp_SettingsDialog.o] Error 1
> 
> 
> 
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